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End of An Era: Louden Retires April Reunion Will Honor Louden By Ross Smith and Becca Atchison Dr. Allan Louden arrived at Wake Forest to take over as Director of Debate in the fall of 1977. Thirty years later the program here bears his imprint and stands as a tribute to his hard work, tal ent, and most of all, love of students. Ross Smith, who has been coach since 1984 and who was himself coached by Allan, has the privilege and challenge of succeeding Dr. Louden as Director. Anyone who has visited the website or received the Debate Update over the years has heard and recognized, little by little, Louden's accomplishments. Na tional championships, national rankings, increased squad size, and increased graduate opportunities have been chroni cled. If you are reading this Debate Up date, your life was probably influenced by the hard work and dedication of Dr. Louden. For those who debated before Louden arrived, you know that he has helped make your legacy a lasting one. There is no doubt that the Wake Forest debate team would not exist in its cur rent form without his leadership and vision. When Dr. Louden took over the de bate program for the 1977-1978 season, few "NDT" people knew much about him. Debaters John Graham and Ross
Smith "introduced" Louden to Wake and the national circuit. Over the past thirty years, however, Dr. Louden established himself as one of the premier directors in the nation. Countless debaters, graduate students, and colleagues owe part of their success to Dr. Louden's tireless work as an ad viser, mentor, teacher, and friend. But no amount ofwriting here or elsewhere can fully capture the spirit and accom plishments of Allan Louden. He de serves far more, but a full weekend of appreciation and fellowship is the least we cando.
Louden than to come back to Winston Salem and be a part of his special weekend. Second, we are looking for volunteers who are willing to help com municate with their "generation" of Wake Forest debaters and graduate students.
These volunteers can help by help tracking down current contact informa So, save the dates ofApril 18-20, tion to ensure that the details of the 2008 to honor Dr. Allan Louden upon weekend reach as many people as pos his retirement as Director of Debate and sible. Lastly, any financial contribu to celebrate his tremendous contribu tions would be greatly appreciated, as tions to Wake Forest debate. All of you our goal is to make the weekend as who have had the opportunity to spend memorable as possible for both Dr. time with Dr. Louden know that there is Louden, and the many alumni who will no more fitting way to celebrate his travel so far to honor him. contributions than a grand gathering of With your help, this weekend will the many generations of Wake Forest be a grand celebration full of memories Debate. and social events. We will continue to In order to carry on the tradition of update you with the details of the week hospitality and community that Dr. end. If you have any questions or Louden helped instill in the Wake For would like to volunteer to assist in the est Debate family, we need your help. outreach effort, please contact Becca First, please save the date! There is no Atchison at
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06-07 Deacon Debaters Show Tremendous Depth & Teamwork By JPLacy The 06-07 debate team was faced with a new challenge: the first Supreme Court topic in 15 years. With the explo sion of information technology, a strong squad effort was called for to leam new types of arguments, reasoning & re search. With a top 2 finish in the NDT Var sity rankings, 5th in the CEDA National rankings, 3rd in the American Debate Association Varsity rankings, and first in the District Six overall rankings, the debate squad showed incredible depth and teamwork. The squad kicked off its season at
the Georgia State National Tournament with a fairly strong showing: Liz Lun deen & Seth Gannon advanced to the Double Octa Finals while John Patten & Alex Lamballe advanced to the Quar ters. Other season highlights included: Sam Crichton & Nick Watts taking second in the First Year Breakout at Kentucky.
Seungwon Chung, Doowon Ching, Carlos Maza & Kurt Woolford closing out the James Madison Tournament. Liz Lundeen & Seth Gannon mak ing it to the fmal round of the Cap Cit ies Tournament at Catholic University.
Will Sears, Junior John Patten & Sophomore Alex Lamballe, and Senior Liz Lundeen & Sophomore Seth Gannon) with Gannon & Lundeen los ing on a heartbreaking 3-2 decision in the Octa-Finals to Northwestern.
Adam Abelkop, Will Sears, Doowon Chung & Seungwon Chung closing out the US Naval Academy tournament. Clearing an unprecedented four teams at the historically tough West Georgia tournament. Clearing three teams at Northwest ern while three other very worthy Wake teams missed on points.
Lauren Sabino & Kurt Woolford winning N Nationals at West Virginia. Elyse MacNamara & Hannah Rothman winning ADA Nationals in the Junior division. Finally, one very important high light was qualifying 3 teams to the NDT (Senior Adam Abelkop & First Year
Above: JP Lacy explains the resolution to onlookers.
Southern Politics Debate The NPR station WFDD, the Wake Forest University Debate Team and the Wake Forest University Political Science Dept. co-sponsored a debate, "Southern Surrender: Smart Strategy for Democrats?" Affirmative: Tom SchaUer, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County, author of the book, Whistling Past Dixie: How the Democrats Can Win Without the South, Negative: Bob Moser, The Nation contributor whose forthcoming book, Dixiephobia, explores the history of anti Southern bigotry and its crippling effects on the American progressive movement and the national Democratic Party Respondents: David Coates (WFU professor of politics), Delmas Parker (NC Democratic party 2nd vice chair), Ross Smith (Wake Forest debate coach), Date: Tues. March 20 Time: 7pm to 8:30pm Place: Worrell Professional Center room 1312 Public invited, free Broadcast: NPR affiliate WFDD, 88.5FM, in Winston-Salem broadcasted the debate Sunday, March 25 at 7:00 p.m. The program has been archived on their website, http://www.wfdd.org/
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Southern Politics Debate (continuedfrom page 2) The Debaters
Tom Schaller Associate Professor ofPolitical Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County, author of the book, Whistling Past Dixie: How the Democrats Can Win Without the South, and coauthor of Devolution and Black State Legislators. A colum nist for The Washington Examiner and co-founder ofGadflyer.com, Schaller has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times,The American Prospect, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, and Salon, and has appeared on MSNBC, National Public Radio and C-SPAN. Tom earned his Ph. D. in political science from the Univer /sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Bob Moser A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Bob Moser began his journalism career in 1990, reporting on Southern cul ture and politics for The Independent Weekly in RaleigbJDurham/Chapel Hill. In 1995 he was named editor of The Inde pendent, which won more than 35 national awards for excellence in investigative reporting and writing under his leadership, including the Thurgood Marshall Award and the Batten Medal for outstanding humanitarian journalism in the United States. Moser was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University during the 2000-2001 academic year. He was senior writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report from 2002 to 2005, winning several awards for his exposes of the rise of anti-immigration extremism and hate violence against the GLBT community. Along the way, Moser has contributed feature articles to national magazines including Rolling Stone and Out. His 2005 Rolling Stone story about the savage kill ing of transgendered Gwen Araujo, "The Murder of a Boy Named Gwen," won the 2006 GLAAD Media Award for out standing magazine article of the year. Moser became senior editor of The Nation in 2005, and is now a contributing writer for the magazine. His forthcoming book, Dixiephobia, explores the history of anti-Southern bigotry and its crippling effects on the American progressive movement and the national Democratic Party. He is teaming with photographer Lowell Handler on a long-term project to document the social and cultural impact of Hispanic immigration on small towns in the Midwest and South, and will begin a biweekly campaign column on middle American politics for The Nation in June 2007.
Respondent Panel: Moderator and critic: Ross Smith, Wake Forest University Debate Coach. He has coached the 1997 National Debate TournamentChampions, was named National Coach of the Year in 1994 and 1998, and Southeast Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2007. In Best of the Decade polling he was named Best Judge of the 1990's and Second Best Coach of the 1990's. Ross is also the founder and editor of, www.debatescoop.org, the nation's only blog devoted to expert coverage ofpolitical can didate debates. Questioner and commenter: David Coates, Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies, Wake Forest University De partment of Political Science. He is the author of Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments (available July 2007) thataddresses the question of how best to get a Democratic win in 2008. His current research interests focus on 'third way politics' and on the response of oraganized labour in both the UK. and the US to the increasingly global nature of production and trade. Questioner and commenter: Delmas Parker, Second Vice Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, he has served at every level of politics in the Party, from the precinct level to the leadership of the State Party. Delmas has served as Ashe County Chair, as Vice Chair of the 5th and lOth Congressional Districts, as Chair of the 5th Congressional District, as a candidate for Congress in the 5th Congressional District, as a member of the State Executive Committee. Delmas lives in Clemmons and is married to Sue Lewis Parker. He has one son and three grandchildren.
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06-07 Tournament Results
Championships, Final Rounds, Special Honors Kentucky (First Year Breakout) 2nd - Sam Crichton & Nick Watts Catholic - Cap Cities 2nd Liz Lundeen and Seth Gannon James Madison - 1st (Tie) Seungwon Chung & Doowon Chung James Madison - 1st (Tie) Carlos Maza & Kurt Woolford Best Judge - JMU - JP Lacy Naval Academy - 1st (Tie) Adam Ablekop & Will Sears Naval Academy - 1st (Tie) Doowon Chung & Seungwon Chung NDT Qualifier - 2nd John Patten & Alex Lamballe NDT Qualifier - 3rd - Adam Abelkop & Will Sears Dist VI/CEDA SE Champs - 1st N - Elyse McNamara & Hannah Rothman Dist VI/CEDA SE Champs - 2nd N - Tom DeFranco & Andy Levin (Vandy) N Nationals - W Va - 1st - Lauren Sabino & Kurt Woolford Amer Debate Assoc Nationals - 1st N - Elyse MacNamara & Hannah Rothman Madison Cup - JMU - 7th Claire Reifsnyder & Hannah Rothman CEDA Academic All American - Liz Lundeen & Adam Abelkop Louden named to NDT Board of Trutees Doowan Chung named as WDI College Policy Scholar at Univ of Vermont
Semi-Finals Catholic - Cap Cites - Forrest Pearce & Rohit Nath (Met WFU GL in Semis)
AIDerDebate Assoc Nationals - 3rd - Alex Lamballe & Adam Abelkop
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06-07 Tournament Results Continuedfrom page 4
Quarter-Finals Kentucky (First Year Breakout) - Kurt Woolford & Carlos Maza Univ. of West Georgia - John Patten & Alex Lamballe CEDA SE Champs - Seth Gannon & Liz Lundeen Georgia State Univ. - Alex Lamballe & John Patten
Octa-Finals Naval Academy - Kurt Zemlicka & Sean Ridley Naval Academy - Forrest Pierce & Rohit Nath (met Wake) Southern California - John Patten & Alex Lamballe Cal State Fullerton - Alex Lamballe & John Patten U. Texas-Dallas - Karen Harrison & Carlos Maza Miami (OR) - Elyse MacNamara & Hannah Rothman Univ. of West Georgia -Adam Abelkop & Will Sears Univ. of West Georgia - Liz Lundeen & Seth Gannon Univ of West Georgia - Seungwon Chung & Doowon Chung JV Nationals W Va - Elyse McNamara & Hannah Rothman ADA Nationals - Karen Harrison & Carlos Maza ADA Nationals - Seungwon Chung & Tom DeFranco National Debate Tournament - Liz Lundeen & Seth Gannon
Double Octa Finals Georgia State Univ. - Liz Lundeen & Seth Gannon Kentucky - John Patten and Alex Lamballe Kentucky - Will Sears and Adam Abelkop Southern Calififornia - Seth Ganon & Liz Lundeen Southern California - Doowon Chung & Seungwon Chung Univ. of North Texas - Nick Watts & Sam Critchton Cal State Fullerton - Adam Abelkop & Will Sears U. Texas- Dallas - Sam Crichton & Nick Watts (met Wake) U. Texas - Dallas - Rohit Nath & Forrest Pearce Northwestern Univ. - Liz Lundeen & Seth Gannon Northwestern Univ. - Alex Lamballe & John Patten Northwestern Univ. - Will Sears & Adam Abelkop JV Nationals W Va - Tom DeFranco & Maro Gonzalas (Wayne St.) CEDA Nationals Oklahoma - Nick Watts & Sam Crichton CEDA Nationals - Seungwon Chung & Doowon Chung Triple-Octas CEDA Nationals - Kurt Woolford & Lauren Sabino Tripel-Octas CEDA Nationals - Carlos Maza & Karen Harrison
Cut-on-Points Georgia State Univ. - Seungwon Chung & Doowon Chung Georgia State Univ. - Adam Abelkop & Will Sears Kentucky - Doowon Chung and Seungwon Chung Richmond (JV) - Tom DeFranco & Jack Ormond Harvard - John Patten & Alex Lamballe James Madison - Sean Ridley & OD Hobeika James Madison - Karen Harrison & Lauren Sobino James Madison - Sam Critchton & Nick Watts James Masdson (JV) - Jack Ormond & Tom DeFranco Univ. of West Georgia - Karen Harrison & Carlos Maza Naval Academy- Hannah Rothman & Elyse McNamara Northwestern University - Kurt Zemlicka & Sean Ridley Northwestern University - Karen Harrison & Carlos Maza SE CEDA Champs - Ga St - Sean Ridley & Kurt Zemlicka Northwestern University - Doowon Chung & Seungwon Chung
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New Coaches Taylor Hahn debated for Clarion Uni versity under fonnerWake Forest assis tant debate coach, Jim Lyle. At Clar ion, Taylor earned a num ber of speaker awards and continually set new standards for Clarion's debate team. In his senior year, Taylor was part of the first team to qualify for the NDT from Clarion. Be yond his own debating, Taylor acted as an assistant debate coach for N and
Novice Clarion debaters. He began his pol icy debate career at Bethel Park High School in Bethel Park, Pa. Sean Luechtefeld comes to Wake Forest by way of Tallahassee, FL, home to Florida State University where he finished his Bachelor's Degree in the Spring of 2007. Originally from Chicago, Sean was a Lin coln-Douglas de bater in high school and spent three years as the team captain at Florida State. Sean is now working on his Master's Degree in Communication.
Andrea Reed joins the Wake team as a new graduate assistant. Andrea debated for four years at Michigan State University, reaching the elimination rounds of the NDT,CEDA Nationals, and every major regular season tournament. Her under graduate degree is in International Relations with a mi nor in Western European Studies.
New Debaters Justin Herzig is from Tampa, Florida and started the debate program as a sophomore at Berkeley Preparatory School taking them from a first year school to TOC caliber in just three years. He fmished his high school ca reer with a 3rd place finish at the Flor ida State Championships and hopes to be highly successful at the college level as well. Ivie Okundaye proudly debated for Neenah High School of Wisconsin for seven years, including 3 years of middle schooL The highlights of her debate career included two state champion ships, top speaker at several tourna ments, champion at the East Grand Rapids Tournament, a three time ap pearance at CFL Nationals, two time appearance at NFL Nationals, and quali fying for the TOC. She also values de bate service by demonstration and teaching at the middle school leveL On a personal level, Ivie has used her com munication and research skills to con tribute to community-based projects, such as assisting local election cam paigns, fundraising health programs, and co-founding the Neenah Forum, a youth civic program. She looks forward to being part of the Wake Forest tradi tion of debate excellence.
Swayze Smartt debated for four years at the St. Mark's School of Texas. His sophomore year, he reached the semifi nals at Georgetown Day and Wood ward. As a junior, Swayze advanced to the elimination rounds at many national tournaments, including the University of Southern California, the Longhorn Classic at the University of Texas, the Colleyville Heritage Winter Invita tional, and the National Debate Coaches Association Tournament. As a senior, he was the 14th speaker at Montgomery Bell Academy, a finalist at the Stanford National Invitational, the champion of the Golden West Championships at the University of Redlands, and an octafi nalist at the Tournament of Champions. He is a recipient of the Wake Forest Presidential scholarship for debate.
"The team grows into a larger
family each year... I see great
growth potential in this year's
group of freshmen. "
- Ross Smith, Director
Ryan Stevens debated for four years at Jesuit College Prep in Dallas, Texas where he was coached by Wake Forest alumni Dan Lingel. During his sopho more year, he finished second at the Woodward tournament. As ajunior Ryan qualified for the Tournament of Champions and advanced to late elimi nation rounds at his state tournament. During his senior year he reached late elim rounds at St. Marks, Greenhill, Berkeley, Emory and his state tourna ment as well as being in the top ten speakers at both the Emory and Mont gomery Bell Academy tournaments. David Tokarz is from Huntersville, North Carolina and went to North Mecklenburg High School. During his 3 year high school forensics career, he did Congressional Debate. He qualified for the NFL Nationals tournament in both his Junior and Senior year, and for the CFL Grand National in his senior year. He was privileged enough to make it to the final round at Wake Forest, Blue Key, Emory and the NFL National Stu dent congress in his senior year. He hopes to one day succeed at policy de bate.
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2007-8 Topic: Engaging the Middle East
By Casey Harrigan, Coach And Alex Lamballe, Debate Team President The topic for the 2007-08 school year focuses on U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. The resolution calls for the United States Federal Gov ernment to increase its constructive engagement, including offering a secu rity guarantee or foreign assistance, to one of five nations: Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, or Syria. Affirma tives on this topic will generally argue that a soft-line approach is most likely to encourage cooperation with U.S. policy and stabilize the region. The timing of the Middle East topic is espe cially appropriate given the ongoing war in Iraq and the centrality of the Middle East to the war on terrorism.
Major negative arguments center around the damage to the U.S. reputation done by appeasing 'rogue nations', potential negative effects that engagement would have on the United States' relationship with Israel, and the political and budget ary implications of allocating additional foreign assistance. The most cornmon issue debated this year is the nuclear issue in Iran. Many affirmatives advocate that the United States Federal Government should offer Iran and security guarantee and some combination of economic and political incentives in return for a sus pension of uranium enrichment in Iran. Most of these debates center on whether or not Iran would accept such a deal and whether or not other methods, such as sanctions or military strikes, would be more effective at changing Iranian pol-
icy. This year, Wake Forest teams have read affirmatives on the subjects of Iranian proliferation, the detrimental effects of foreign non-governmental organizations on reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, the advantages of sub stituting opium with alternate crops in Afghanistan, and the issue of Pales tin ian statehood.
Debaters Reach Out to Public Community
The Wake Forest Debate Team has recently launched their series of service projects this past year. Shawn Isinhue and Tara Tedrow have been involved with the Wake Forest Debate Outreach program with the primary focus being on middle school debate. Shawn, Tara and other members of the team have been working with Paisley Middle School to build a debate program. The pair met with the students one to two times a week for an hour and a half teach ing them the basics of argument and debate structure. After a year and a half of teaching and coaching, the students participated in the Wake Forest Earlybird. Mr. Whitmer, the teacher in charge of the program, has become actively involved with the program and is making moves toward Paisley participating in the Tarheel Forensics League.
mentary followed by discussion from 3 professors from different backgrounds. The professors were from the History and Women and Gender Studies departments. After a short presentation by professors, the 70 or so students were given a chance to ask questions and discuss the issue.
The next project for the debate outreach program will be Ross Smith's October 19th presentation to high school principals in Forsyth County. Along with that presenta tion, the team will begin work at Mineral Springs Middle School in hopes of accomplishing the same goal as Paisley. Among the outreach programs, Tara and Shawn hosted a debate forum on sex slavery last April to raise awareness of the issue on cam pus. The forum consisted of a docu
Left: Shawn Isinhue
Above: Tara Tedrow
Alumni News
David Alderson ('06) is working in Atlanta as a compliance/Fraud Investigator for Primerica Fi nancial Services. He works in the Office of the General Counsel and deals with compliance and fraud investigations. He is planning on returning to school for his MBA in the fall.
Robert Braxton ('66) wrote a nice note a cou ple years ago but his message was misplaced. He works providing technical support at Vir ginia Theological Seminary (Episcopal) begin ning 1997 After attending Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1966 to 1969. He was able about five years later to begin working with computers as a programmer. Bob also worked from 1985 through 1997 providing computer and network support on a contract basis to the submarine directorate of the U.S. Navy.
Thomas Allen ('00) will receive his MBA from the McCombs School of Business at University of Beth Carol Pirkle ('66). She has been head Texas in December '06. He continues to be the pastor of Burke Presbyterian Church, Burke, Director of Software Development at Opus VA, since 1984 and has a partnership with the Healthcare Solutions. Presbyterian Church of East Africa. She and her husband are the proud parents of one son Peter J. Braxton of Jeopardy! and "Who Wants to be Jarrod Atchison (MA '03, BA '01) has taken a a Millionaire" fame. position as Director of Debate and Asst. Prof at Trinity University in San Antonio TIC He finished his Ph.D. at the Univ. of Georgia this spring and is Ed Christman ('50, JD '53) was awarded the now Dr. Atchison. He is married to Becca Eaton Medallion of Merit at Wake's February Convo ('03) who works an an event director at UGa, re cently coordinating Carter Presidency conference cation. The award is Wake's highest honor rec ognizing Wake Forest's most distinguished featured on C-SPAN in January. leaders. Ed is Chaplain Emeritus at Wake.
in Contracts and the Philadelphia Trial Law yers Association James J. Manderino Award for outstanding performance in trial advo cacy. Sam was also recognized for serving as a Senior Editor of the University ofPennsyl vania Law Review, a member of the National Trial Team, and a Spring Co-Chair of the Moot Court Board. Following law school, Sam will be clerking for Judge Louis L. Stanton of the Southern District of New York (September of 2007-September of 2009). Sam is currently in Philadelphia studying for the Bar Exam until August, when he and his girlfriend Amanda Parsels will be moving into a new place together, somewhere in Manhattan.
Emma Filstrup ('02) is an associate in the corporate group at Latham & Watkins in Washington, DC.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross ('98) continues to work with' his publishing and anti-terrorist work. His new book that came out in Febru ary is MY Year Inside Radical Islam. He was profiled in the International Herald Tribune in Nov. 2006. Link An excerpt from his Virginia Bannigan was awarded the Forsyth Co. Elisia Cohen (MA '99) has taken a new posi new book appears in School District's PROMISE (potential, Responsi the latest Wake bility, Optimism, Motivation, Ingenuity, Sensitiv tion in Communication at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. She has been teaching at ForestMagazine.ln ity, and Excellence) Award for the elementary July Daveed was school level on April 23, 2007 at River Oak Meth the Univ. of St Louis and is a Univ. of Southern Calif. Ph.D. named the vice odist Church in Clemmons, NC. The award is president of research funded by a grant from the R. J. Reynolds Founda at the Foundation tion to honor a first year teacher at the elementary, Cyclone Covey & wife, Affie, for Defense of De middle, and high school levels. welcomed Atlas Cyclone Covey mocracies (FDD), a into their family Aug 12th in Washington, D.C. Atlanta. The new parents are Stefan Bauschard and more based policy institute dedicated to promoting doing well too... importantly Holly had their pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that drive terrorism. second son in June, Brenden George. He joins his older Mario DeMarco ('01) is finishing his medical Anjali Garg ('05) is currently the Program brother. degree at Wake Forest Medical School this Manager at the Harry S. Truman Scholarship spring and is now shopping for a top notch resi Foundation. In that role she lead the selec dency program. He also works with health pub Troy Bennett ('51) passed tion process and planned the one week lead lic policy issues. away February 2, 2007 in ership program for the new Scholars in May. Raleigh. He attended Hanes High School in She is also playing violin in a local orchestra Winston-Salem and Wake Forest University and and making the most of her experience in Chris DeVault ('02) and Ann were married in Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, both D.C. This fall Anjali is teaching debate to July 2007. in Wake Forest. He married Marjorie Tripper in 5th arid 6th graders at an inner-city charter Pictured at 1951, and they went to East Pakistan ( Bangla school here in D.C. in association with the the wed desh) as missionaries with the Southern Baptists in DC Urban Debate League. ding re 1956. Later, they also served in Lebanon, Zambia, ception Tanzania, and South Africa. He pastored churches are Mike Justin Green ('98) and in Fayetteville, Kinston, and Winston-Salem. Perry, Sarah Snider Chris De (Vermont) tied the knot Vault, and Sandra McCullough Bowen (MA, 2001) married in Manhattan, Kansas Patrick to Jamie, are new parents of Son Drake born No May 27, 2007. They Speice. vember 1, 2006. They make their home in Raleigh coach the debate team at NC. She is teaching at Wayne Community Col Kansas State University. lege and Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, Samson Enzer ('04) graduated, with hon NC. (see Christmas picture) ors, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. At graduation, Sam received the George Shechtman Prize for the highest grade
Aaron Harmon (MA '00) is completing his last year oflaw school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is the Editor in Chief of the North Carolina Journal ofLaw & Technol ogy (www.nciolt.org). and is the author of "Child Testimony via Two-Way Closed Circuit Televi sion: ANew Perspective on Maryland v. Craig in United States v. Turning Bear and United States v. Bordeaux" (7 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 157 (Fall 2005)), and "The Methamphetamine Remediation Re search Act of 2005: Just What the Doctor Ordered for Cleaning Up Methfields - or Sugar Pill Pla cebo?" (7 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 421 (Spring 2006)). He has also been recognized for donating pro bono legal services to organizations such as the Guardian ad Litem Program of Orange County and The Pro Bono Project in New Orleans. After graduation, Aaron and his wife Danielle will re turn to Portland, Oregon, where he will practice commercial real estate law at Ball Janik LLP, the top real estate firm in Oregon. News Flash: Satur day Sept 15, Aaron has passed the Oregon Bar and is moving forward with lawyering.
James A. "AI" Martin ('37), who had a distin guished academic career before "retiring" to Wake Forest where he taught interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses for 20 years, died in Decatur, Ga, January 24, 2007. He was 89. Al Martin was an important member of the Wake Debate program in the early tournarnent days. He recalled with relish stories of traveling in Model T's to tournaments with J. Rice Qui senberry, coach, at the wheel. He won many tournaments in several speaking event through out the Southeast. Info on Wake Debate Web Page. He had already taught for nearly 40 years when he retired from the religion department at Columbia University, returned to his native North Carolina, and joined the faculty at his alma mater in 1983 as a University Profes sor-the first person hired to fill an inter disciplinary appoint ment. He received an Vicki (Leonard) Henderson ('80) is the Director honorary degree in 1965 and the Distin of Development National Center for Law and Economic Justice in New York City. She lives on guished Alumni Staten Island with her family. Vicki, her husband, Award in 1971. In his and Congress Charles Rangel received an award mid 60s he was in from National Center for Law and Economic Jus vited to join the facr~;~~;~{:~~~;r~.:~";t~~'~:;~~~:~;;:j~:~::'~;~ ulty as the first Uni~~~ ;~:"l;.~~~:~~~;~ clt~mpj.1)I~r.~v tice. versity Professor. "He was a man with a superb background in religion Gordon Bennett Kelley ('50 BS, '51 JD) passed and philosophy," Edwin Wilson said. "He was away on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at Rex Hospital known to be a splendid teacher, and he had in Raleigh. He was a member of Tabernacle Bap authored a number of publications." tist Church and graduated from Hugh Morson Martin was the author of several books, High School in 1945. He received a Bachelor of including Empirical Philosophies ofReligion Science degree from Wake (1944), Ways ofFaith (1953), Faith, Fact and Forest College in 1950 and a Fiction (1960) and The New Dialogue between law degree from Wake Forest Philosophy and Theology (1966). After coming College in 1951. After serving to Wake Forest, he wrote Beauty and Holiness: in the National Guard, Gordon the Dialogue between Aesthetics and Religion, practiced law in Raleigh for published in 1990 by Princeton University more than 50 years. In 2002, Press. he was honored by the Wake He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia Uni County Bar Association for 50 versity in 1944 and served as a chaplain in the years of service to the profes Navy for two years. He taught at Amherst Col sion.He was a student of his lege from 1946 until 1960 and at Union Theo tory, and loved painting, reading, music, dancing logical Seminary from 1960 until 1967, where and the theater. He was involved with the Raleigh he was the Danforth Professor ofReligion. He Little Theatre for many years and played a wide joined the faculty at Columbia University in variety of roles in plays, including Dark of the 1967 and chaired the religion department for 10 Moon, Sherlock Holmes, Carnival and My Fair years before returning to Wake Forest. Lady. (Po
Thomas Loquvam ('01) has moved law firms in Phoenix to Fennemore Craig (www.fclaw.com). On the side he is coaching debate at Desert Vista HS in Phoenix.
Council, president of Shelby Chamber of Commerce, and served as a parliamentarian for Kings Mountain Baptist Association and Baptist State Convention. His debate career was exceptional including two District VI championships, 1st at Ohio State and Florida, Pi Kap Nationals, and twice qualified for the NOT, 1952 & 1953. William McGill, ('47) passed away Oct 2nd 2007, in Wilson, NC. Dr. McGill debated at Wake Forest and was part of the sl942 squad that won the Grand Eastern Forensics Tour nament in 1942, a squad coached by A. L. Ay cock. He received his M.A. degree in English from Vanderbilt Univer sity and attended the University of Tennes see, where he was a teaching assistant. He taught at the University of Mississippi and at Tennessee Wesleyan College. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston Univer sity then joined the faculty of Millsaps Col lege in Jackson, MS. He taught 23 years at Atlantic Christian College, now Barton Col lege .. James Morrill ('05) is in New York city, working on his two year anniversary. He is applying in his undergrad education in Art History, working at David Zwirner, a con temporary art gallery in Chelsea. Currently he is with the accounting/finance department. And, of course, gracing the art scene in NY. Jeanette Kenner Muir's (MA 83') new book Readings on Political Communication has been published by Strata Publishing last May. She is an associate professor of Interdiscipli nary and Integrative Studies at George Ma son University and current editor of Commu nication Quarterly.
Star Muir ('80) was promoted this last year to Senior Asso ciate Director of Instructional Tech Joseph William Mauney ('53 BA '55 JD) 75 nology at George passed away January 5, 2007 in Shelby NC. He Mason University. served in the US Army as a Lieutenant Colonel, He plans to return to and practiced law with the Law Firm of the classroom in the Hamrick, Mauney, Flowers and Martin for over Communication 40 years, and after retirement, remained a senior Department in the partner with the law firm. He was a member of following year. Cleveland County Mental Health Board for 12 years, 1979 Trustee for Gardner Webb Univer sity, and also served on the General Counsel Lawyer Alumni Association, was past director Wake Law School and served on the alumni
Clare Novak (MA '78) founded the firm Novak and Associates in 1994. It is an international consult ing firm in Exton Pennsylvania. She was the 1998 recipi ent of the Helen Dutcher Mentoring Award from the American Society for Training and Devel opment, Philadelphia Chapter. Her latest book is Never Rule Without a Magician, a Sage and a Fool. LeeAnne Quattrucci CO I) is a lawyer with Jennings and Associates in Wilming ton, NC. She recently fmished law school atUNC-CH. Michael Perry C02) graduated from Stan ford Law School this Spring, and is mov ing to New York in the fall (where his fiancee, Ashley, will be going to grad school). Mike will be working at Latham & Watkins in New York before starting a clerkship with Judge A1lyne Ross in the Eastern District ofNew York. Brian Prestes C97) and John Hughes ('96) "teamed" together once again to be featured as the hot-young lawyers in Sep tember 2007 issue of American Lawyer, "Bartlit Beck's Secret Weapons: Associ ates. " They are winning cases and making life tough for more seasoned opponents. Read a pdf from the American Lawyer, page 54. Mike Ridge ('92) was made a full profes sor last year at the University ofEdinburgh and is now the Professor of Moral Philoso phy. He is also serving his second year as Head of Department. He is ready to get back to doing philosophy and avoiding departmental politics. Robin (Flaig) Ridge's ('93) job is going well, she and others are publishing the third National Report on Stroke Services in Scotland this September. Their son, Benja min, was three in April. He is growing up too quickly.
Sam Norris Smith ('84) earned his Ph.D.
c~ from the University of Colorado, Boulder, taught for a stint and is now engaged in consulting and computer design work. His avocation is the music scene. He resides with his wife and terrier in Denver.
Jordana Sternberg ('95) and husband Brett Berlin welcomed daughter Foster Frances Berlin into their lives July 21, 2006. They live in Mari etta, Ga. Jordana is an attorney-litigant with Jones Day in Atlanta. Mark Yopp ('0 I) is engaged to Laura Millendorf(and the grapevine says a wed ding is coming soon), graduated from Emory Law School, taken the bar and is moving to New York where he will begin in September at Sutherland, Asbill & Bren nan working with general corporate, State and Local Tax law.
Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative in Second Year
The Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fel lows Initiative is in its second year, provid ing two Summer Institutes: The Founders (ages 15-17) and the Diplomats (ages 17 19). The program is funded by a $950,000 grant from US State Department. Allan Louden directed the institute and several Wake Forest debaters served as mentors including OD Hobeika, Rohit Nath, Sean Ridley, and Kurt Zemlicka. Former Wake Debate associates included Blake Abbot, RJ Green, Gordon Mitchell, and Erin Witte. The Benjamin Franklin Transatlan tic Fellows Initiative from 40 countries in Eurasia, Europe and across the US, from Norway to Tajikistan, California to Flor ida. US Embassies selected the 90 partici pants. Each group spent 3 Yz weeks on the Wake campus in classes, home stays and producing videos for the YouTube presidential debates. They also took part in an eight day study trip to Philadelphia, Washington DC, and the Williamsburg area. Inspiring the Institutes was statesman and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin, who prized religious tolerance over intolerance, social mobility over class privilege, and was a finn believer in free speech. The program was designed to encourage individual expression, communications, and information sharing in an effort to advance positive relationships among the various ethnic, religious, and national groups. More atbftf.org
Above and Right: 2007 Founders Bottom: 2007 Diplomats
Wake Forest Debate 2007-2008
Debate Team - Fancy Gap Lodge - Pre-School Retreat 2007
Standing (L-R): Elyse MacNamara, Carlos Maza, Ivie Okundaye, Hannah Rothman, Karen Harrison, Ross
Smith, Rohit Nath, Tom Defranco, Justin Herzig, Doowon Chung, Sean Ridley, Kurt Zemlicka, Ryan Ste
vens, Alex Lamballe, Brian DeLong, David Tokarz, Taylor Hahn, Seungwon Chung, Brad Hall
Sitting: Seth Gannon, Sam Crichton, Will Sears, KUrtWoolford, Lauren Sabino, Matt Irvine, JP Lacy, Casey
Harrigan, Swayze Smartt, Shawn Isinhue, Forrest Pearce, Andrea Reed, Sean Luechtefeld
Not Pictured: Virginia Bannigan
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